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for his tusks to be broken off. "No sooner had the beast 
suffered this injury than his powers forsook him, and he 
neglected those females to whom before he was passionately 
attached, and from whom no fences could restrain him. 
LETTER XXXIIL 
TO THE HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON. 
^^^QHE natural term of a hog's life is little known, 
and the reason is plain ; because it is neither 
profitable nor convenient to keep that turbu- 
lent animal to the full extent of its time ; 
however, my neighbour, a man of substance, 
who had no occasion to study every little advantage to a 
nicety, kept a half-bred Bantam sow, who was as thick as 
HOG. 
she was long, and whose belly swept on the ground, till she 
was advanced to her seventeenth year, at which period she 
showed some tokens of age, by the decay of her teeth and 
the decline of her fertility. 
